Otto Peisl

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Otto Peisl (born October 23, 1916 in Munich , † October 14, 1997 in Cham ) was a German folk musician , folk music curator and folk song collector who worked mainly in the Upper Palatinate .

Life

Peisl was born in the Munich district of Haidhausen and grew up in Markt Indersdorf . In Munich he completed his training as a backer and labor service . In Nazi Germany , he served as a soldier and married in 1940, the Waldmünchnerin Fanny Schmid from Waldmünchen and settled in the Upper Palatinate, where he also during the Second World War, spent the holidays Front.

In the post-war years, Peisl's interest in folk music began. The main focus of his work was the preservation of folk songs and traditional music-making. He primarily promoted sacred folk music with Advent and Marian singing. A home evening he held in the large Waldmünchner Festhalle was followed by more than 1000 visitors and recorded by Radio Munich . Peisl also came up with the idea for the open-air festival " Trenck der Pandur vor Waldmünchen ". He initiated the regularly held “Böhmerwaldsingen”, for which he was awarded the Nordgau Culture Prize of the city of Amberg in 1966 , and founded the “Oberpfälzer Volkssängerkreis” ( Upper Palatinate Folk Song Circle since 1957 ), the first folk music association in Old Bavaria on January 23, 1955 , whose first chairman he was until the handover to Hans Weigert in 1994. At times the association comprised 150 groups in the four regions of Cham, Schwandorf , Regensburg and Steinwald / Stiftland .

Furthermore, Peisl was involved in arranging local singing and music groups for the Bavarian Radio and several folk music programs and radio reports from the Bavarian Forest . There were also 26 long-playing records and 30 music cassettes . In the 1995 Straubing calendar he was referred to as " Kiem Pauli der Oberpfalz". Peisl was also the Vice President of the Upper Palatinate Cultural Association .

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Otto Peisl 70 years. In: The Upper Palatinate . Volume 86, 1986, p. 358.
  • In memory of Otto Peisl. In: Die Oberpfalz 97, 1997, p. 364.
  • Hans Weigert : Memories of Otto Peisl (1916–1997). In: Singers and musicians newspaper 41/1, 1998, pp. 43–44.
  • Hans Weigert: In memory of Otto Peisl. In: Volksmusik in Bayern 15, 1998, p. 10.
  • Carsten Lenk: If it's bouma, dance a little! Otto Peisl and the beginnings of folk music cultivation in the Upper Palatinate 1948–1969. Series of publications by the Oberpfälzer Freilichtmuseum 7, Erhardi, Regensburg 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Otto Peisl and folk music in the Upper Palatinate ; on: Foundation and development of the OVK , Oberpfälzer VolksliedKreis, Schwandorf.
  2. ↑ Anton Schreiegg : memories of the Nordgautag 1954 in Neumarkt . P. 43.
  3. ↑ Fendl, Josef: Straubinger Calendar 1995 ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.antbo.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Chiemgauer Internet Antiquariat.
  4. ↑ Nordgau awards and Nordgau honor plaques , Oberpfälzer Kulturbund.
  5. ^ The winners of the Bavarian Forest Association's culture award , Bayerischer Wald-Verein.
  6. ↑ The Waldschmidt Prize , Eschlkam.
  7. ↑ List of winners of the folk music days in Kloster Banz and Wildbad Kreuth (since 1984) , Hanns Seidel Foundation, p. 5.
  8. ↑ a b Bayerische Staatsbibliothek : Bayerische Bibliographie 1998. CH Beck (ed.), Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-10619-6 , p. 553. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  9. ↑ Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde Volume 96, Verein für Volkskunde (Ed.), Vienna 1993, p. 237.
personal data
SURNAME Peisl, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folk musician, folk music curator and folk song collector
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1997
Place of death Cham